Lives of Dryden and PopeClarendon Press, 1885 - 326 Seiten |
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Seite vii
... hands cannot keep his head . The intellectual contests were of the roughest , and epithets could be freely bandied about which are no longer to be heard in polite society . It was then correct and natural in the eyes of men to hate a ...
... hands cannot keep his head . The intellectual contests were of the roughest , and epithets could be freely bandied about which are no longer to be heard in polite society . It was then correct and natural in the eyes of men to hate a ...
Seite ix
... hand of Boswell in the greatest of biographies . For to know Johnson aright , and through him to know the times he lived in , it is not enough to study his writings ; we must know him as a talker , and follow him from one place of ...
... hand of Boswell in the greatest of biographies . For to know Johnson aright , and through him to know the times he lived in , it is not enough to study his writings ; we must know him as a talker , and follow him from one place of ...
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... hand bookseller , as we should now call him , he undoubtedly owed much of that acquaintance with rare and curious works which so dis- tinguished him in after - life . " Why , Sir , ' said he to his friend Langton , ' who is there in ...
... hand bookseller , as we should now call him , he undoubtedly owed much of that acquaintance with rare and curious works which so dis- tinguished him in after - life . " Why , Sir , ' said he to his friend Langton , ' who is there in ...
Seite xi
... hand had laid at his door . For the only lectures he valued were those of a Mr. Bateman , delivered in Christ Church : these he had attended whilst his shoes held out ; but when his toes peeped through he came no more . The poverty ...
... hand had laid at his door . For the only lectures he valued were those of a Mr. Bateman , delivered in Christ Church : these he had attended whilst his shoes held out ; but when his toes peeped through he came no more . The poverty ...
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... hand , and was in no mood to be so caught . Besides , the two were naturally antipathetic . Johnson could have little in common with the man who published ' Letters to his Son , ' containing minute directions as to how he ought to ...
... hand , and was in no mood to be so caught . Besides , the two were naturally antipathetic . Johnson could have little in common with the man who published ' Letters to his Son , ' containing minute directions as to how he ought to ...
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